the setup placed outside in a patio near our lab space and this helped minimizethe mess with the water (there will be a lot of splashing during initial testing). When choosing afan, you want one that is at least 22 in in diameter, but something greater than 24 in creates alarge region of wind to harness. You will also want to provide students with a wind anemometer(it does not have to be fancy) and just make sure that the wind speeds are between 4.5 m/s and5.2 m/s at the high speed. This provides enough energy to be competitive.One of the secrets that students do not often realize until the end is that because our setup isplaced outside, most of the light energy does come from the sun (even though we place the setupin the shade). If you are
mechanical drawings and software.7. Test results for your project.8. Analysis of your success measured against the performance specifications and need.Instructional Approach – Methods and ProceduresThe course consists of class discussions and individual/team requirements designed toreinforce the material throughout the quarter and your college tenure. Students should comeprepared to discuss the elements of the design process, including their assignments / project(s),in class and be prepared to contribute to team activities in / out of class to complete that / thoseassigned the project(s). Any exercises or other work must be done in a complete manner,which includes defining problems/processes, providing illustrations and including a
of students; our 2019 engineering designcourse includes 40% (8) women and 20% (3) underrepresented minorities in a class of 20students. Given this increased diversity, we can apply the tools we have developed to betterunderstand if and how the curriculum and instructional approaches we are using is supportingwomen and underrepresented students in the program. We look forward to sharing ourcontinuing research including more student voices and the next phase of our curriculum designchallenge.References[1] S. Olson and D. G. Riordan, "Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Report to the President," 2012.[2] ABET. (2017, 13 Jan
on motivation and performance in the college classroom,” Contemp. Educ. Psychol., vol. 21, pp. 477-486, 1996.4. S. Freeman, S. L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. K. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, and M. P. Wenderoth, “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics,” Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 111, pp. 8410-8415, 2014.5. D. U. Silverthorn, “Teaching and learning in the interactive classroom,” Adv. Physiol. Educ., vol. 30, pp. 135-140, 2006.6. K. M. Cauley and J. H. McMillan, “Formative assessment techniques to support student motivation and achievement,” The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, vol. 83, pp. 1-6, 2010.7. B. P. Helmke
the various Non-Disclosure Agreements (“NDA”s) that the studentsneed to sign, file and data management on the project, choosing and learning about a sub-team,and social responsibility aspects of autonomous vehicles. At the end of the class, students wereasked to fill out a voluntary survey. Per the Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) approval, theinstructor for the course was not aware of who did or did not fill out the survey. Completedsurveys were turned in to an administrative person, who removed names and other identifyinginformation and retained the informed consent forms.As part of the survey, students were asked about their interest in taking an Independent Studycourse related to AutoDrive, and also in courses relevant to AutoDrive that
research questions driving this project are “What are the research supports neededby CEE researchers during the whole research lifecycle?” and “What can academic libraries do toimprove services to meet these needs?” We specifically focus on the faculty members who areconducting research in the Civil and Environmental Engineering field at a private university. Thisresearch is part of a larger series of studies coordinated by Ithaka S+R1 on the research supportneeds of scholars by discipline.This study used a grounded theory guided approach consisting of the initial and focused codingsteps. Grounded theory is defined by Corbin and Strauss [10] as “a specific methodologydeveloped by Glaser, Strauss and Strutzel [11] for the purpose of building theory
engineering to include sociotechnical work the dualism we are trying to challenge Selecting appropriate problem statements Instructor optimism and excitement to create with consistent qualities across the courses meaningful new assignment(s) for impact was difficult given the diverse course contexts their students’ views of engineering and and student populations (year, major, etc.) abilities to engineer sociotechnically Logistical considerations, e.g. Who counts as a non-engineer? Can a student team divide up this assignment, or is it more fruitful to have them each work on it individually? Student perceptions of “true” engineering work as purely technical rather than sociotechnical
seek to evaluate integrative thinking, we choose to avoid the style ofpoint-allocation rubrics, as point awards necessarily skew towards simple report features thatmay fail to reflect the students’ understanding of their work.To reflect our emphasis on higher-level thinking we have chosen to develop mastery-orientedrubrics, where report sections are evaluated on a continuum from Novice to Mastery (or 1 to 5).This enables us to rank reports according to the students’ ability to define critical points for eachsection of a report. Our generic rubric for a laboratory report is shown in Table 1. Table 1. Default rubric for assessing student understanding in laboratory reports Headed Section Important Statement(s
inengineering activities situated in academic makerspaces. We found it critical to combinethe existing frameworks [13, 19] because its combination and adaptions allows us toinvestigate engineering identity development within makerspaces. Adapting only one orthe other would not allow us to account for either the social factors that are present incommunities of practice or different factors that are known to influence engineeringidentity development. Taken together, we are able to investigate one, situated within theother. Figure 1 may help clarify our adaptation. Intent of this PaperIn this paper, we extend Stevens et al.’s [13] findings by investigating how participationin an immersive design challenge situated within
each evaluation question.Table 2. Evaluation Questions Aligned to Data Sources Evaluation Questions Data Sources Project Observations Focus Content S-STEM Documents Groups Assessment Survey and Artifacts & Interviews 1. Did program staff create and X X X implement a high quality, engaging research methods course and summer research experience? 2. To what extent did participation
these constructs. Lastly, we will utilizepreliminary insights to develop and test a model of ethical becoming. These insights will berefined through the data integration step and will subsequently be tested by identifying researchhypotheses and evaluating those hypotheses with specific quantitative methods.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1737157. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] ABET. (n.d., 01/18/19). Accreditation policy and procedure manual (APPM), 2019-2020. Available: https://www.abet.org
theirresearch, as evidenced in Respondent 3’s wording, “Believing in an idea and bringing it to life.” Finally, we asked participants to tell us what they would like us to change about thecontest if we to run it again. Two of the respondents gave us no feedback and one wrote “Notsure.” However, two of the respondents gave us helpful advice. Respondent 3 indicated that weneeded to provide more opportunities to find teammates. While the contest was open to bothindividuals and teams, in a semester-long project which requires research, a well-organized teamhas an advantage over an individual. Moreover, learning to work effectively within a team onproject management is an important skill for engineering students to learn. Respondent 5 wantedmore
and out of STEM fields. National Center for Education Statistics, 2013. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014001rev.pdf[2] M. R. Vargas-Leyva and M. E. Jiménez-Hernández, “Programas acreditados y estrategias de titulación,” Revista Electrónica ANFEI Digital, vol. 2, no. 3, 2015.[3] M. Magolda, and A. Astin, “What matters in college: Four critical years revisited,” The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 8, 1993.[4] B. N. Geisinger and D. R. Raman, “Why they leave: Understanding Student Attrition from Engineering Majors,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 4, 2013.[5] S. Singer and K. A. Smith, “Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning
. 5Table I. Pavlis Curriculum and Reflections Curriculum Component Number/Frequency of Reflection(s) Feedback - G (graded) C (comments) D (debriefed w/ mentor) Seminar I (HON2150) Weekly G, C Academic Enhancement Proposal with justification (before) C Immersion Experience Proposal with pre-reflection (before), 5 C, D reflections over the course of the experience Seminar II (HON3150) Weekly
breadboards are not acceptable for the final device, so they must have adesigned PCB or solder board instead of it. For some of the parts they can make use ofcomponents with breakout boards. The students are also required to design a solution fulfillingfive of the following constraints: utilize a communication protocol, operate with the use ofbatteries, use wireless communication, teleoperation (wired connection possible), integrate arelative or absolute positioning system, interact with the other team(s) devices, use more thanone microcontroller, self-charging, include text display or multiple copies of function blocks.Students use TM4C123G LaunchPad Tiva board as its primary microcontroller which has aCortex M4-ARM 32-bit microprocessor (80- 120
equitable opportunities by allowing the students who are English learners toenvision futures for themselves as engineers. [S]tarting early allows the students to bridge the opportunity gap by having shared experiences and picturing themselves and as engineers and problem solversAffordance 7: Engineering activities provide unique opportunities for English learners to applytheir science content knowledge in meaningful ways, even if they learned that science content inanother language.Engineering activities can invite or require students to draw upon science content knowledge, inwhatever language they learned it. They can demonstrate their understandings through artifactsor multiple modes of communication. Applying the concepts in an engineering
effective in building and honing students’ leadership and teamwork skills.Finally, robotics activities were not deemed to be universally applicable for all science and mathconcepts. Additional methods that teachers used to identify the suitability of robotics lesson aresummarized in Table 3.Table 3: Methods used to identify the suitability of robotics lessons. S. No. Methods used to identify the suitability of robotics lesson Analyze various aspects of a lesson to establish if a robot can perform a role to effectively 1. contribute to the lesson’s objective. Assess and ensure that the robotics activity is appropriate for the grade level and aligns 2. with the learning
J.A. Mejia, “Conversations about diversity: Institutional barriers for underrepresented engineering students,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 211-218, 2016.[6] D. MacPhee, S. Farro and S. S. Canetto, “Academic self-efficacy and performance of underrepresented STEM majors: Gender, ethnic, and social class patterns,” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 347-369, 2013.[7] T.J. Yosso, “Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth,” Race Ethnicity and Education, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 69-91, March 2005.[8] S.L. Dika and J.P. Martin, “Bridge to persistence: Interactions with educators as social capital for Latina
, attracting more domestic and foreign students. Li (2016) argues that Chineseengineering ethics faces a dual task: on the one hand, like developed countries, China’s rapidprogress in S&T research has raised critical ethical concerns centered on new technologies (suchas gene editing, artificial intelligence, etc.) that need to be confronted due to the domestic andinternational pressure; On the other hand, China is facing a complex transition from tradition tomodernity which is different from the Western experience. Neither the traditional ethical 3 principle such as Confucianism nor the Western ones is suitable for guiding Chinese engineers tothink
solution set for each deliverable is fully-vetted prior to beingissued to the students to ensure the proper desired outcomes are possible. These laboratoryprojects are not guided tutorials, forcing students to use the information that was presented duringlectures and in the project description to identify and implement the project solution(s). This isdesigned specifically to reinforce the theory and practice described in the lecture component ofthe course.For the semester project, each student is expected to undertake an investigation of a topic that haspiqued their interest. Occasionally, students are allowed to work in pairs if they have a compellingcase for doing so. It is not the intent that students are identifying new
construction, BIM, sustainable construction and collaboration in construction.Luciana Debs, Purdue University Luciana Debs, is an Assistant Professor of Construction Management in the School Construction Manage- ment Technology at Purdue University. She received her PhD from Purdue University Main Campus. Her previous degrees include a MS from the Technical Research Institute of Sao Paulo (IPT-SP), and BArch from the University of S˜ao Paulo (USP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to her current position she worked in design coordination in construction and real estate development companies in Brazil. Her research in- terests include team work and collaboration in construction, effective communication in spatial problem solving
/. [Accessed January 27, 2019].[8] V. Chan. “Teaching oral communication in undergraduate science: Are we doing enough and doing it right?” Journal of Learning Design, 4, vol. 3, 2011. Available: https://www.jld.edu.au/article/view/82. [Accessed January 27, 2019].[9] F. C. R. Estrada and L. S. Davis. “Improving visual communication of science through incorporation of graphic design theories and practices into science communication,” Science Communication, 37, vol. 1, pp. 140148, 2015.[10] A. Fleury. “Liberal education and communication against the disciplines,” Communication Education, 54, vol. 1, pp. 7279, 2015.[11] D. P. Dannels, D. P and A. L. Housley Gaffney. “Communication across the curriculum and in the
presentation: The final presentation is the last official schedule of the Program in the Netherlands.Students are supposed to present for twelve minutes. The presentation includes a problem statement,research question(s), methodology, and analysis if they have done any, research activities and progressmade while they were in the Netherlands, and the plan for research completion for three months beforesubmission. As mentioned earlier, students are required to finish their research work and submit areport and poster by the end of summer, August 31st (the research travel is completed at the end ofMay). In this sense, the final presentation is not for presenting their final results but it can be consideredas a follow-up of the second research progress
length and direction of the line drawn by the marker indicate? o Why does the spring oscillate? Using another known physics principle, propose a modification to the accelerometer car that would make it more accurate and/or precise. Explain how it would be an improvement and how it would work. Each group will write a report detailing: o Identified limitation(s) and why they exit. o Drawings indicating any suggested modification(s). o Detailed scientific explanation of the modification(s).3.2. Integrated and automated micro-physiological systems for monitoring organ-on-a-chip cultures and a lesson on 3D printingOrgan on a chip technology is being explored for the application of tissue
Paper ID #24757Developing a Request for Qualifications Activity to Integrate ConstructionTopics at the Sophomore LevelDr. Luciana Debs, Purdue University Luciana Debs, is an Assistant Professor of Construction Management in the School Construction Manage- ment Technology at Purdue University. She received her PhD from Purdue University Main Campus. Her previous degrees include a MS from the Technical Research Institute of Sao Paulo (IPT-SP), and BArch from the University of S˜ao Paulo (USP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to her current position she worked in design coordination in construction and real estate development
of the table ordesktop so that the point on the beam where the load will be applied is over the edge of the tableor desktop to allow the weight to hang freely below (see Fig. 4). The weights are attached to thebeam using a simple metal “S” hook whose pointed end rests on the top of the beam at the loadpoint while the kilogram weight is attached to the lower part of the hook hanging below theapparatus.Other configurations. The beam bending apparatus can be used in other testing situations. Forexample, beams with thin-walled C-shaped cross sections will develop large twist angles if theloads are not applied precisely at the shear center. Figure 5a shows such a beam (CNC machinedfrom an aluminum plate) with a crossbar attached at its tip (right